I got rid of Herman, poor thing. It was developing an unhealthy ammount of alcohol, and I became tired of not knowing what to do. Perhaps one day I’ll get a bread book in order to find out what went wrong. In the meantime, I believe that buying a ready-made loaf of leaven bread is [...]
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Yeasts are fungi; sea horses are animals.
Posted in Food, Home, tagged leaven bread, seahorses, yeast on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Leaven trials
Posted in Food, Home, tagged class, jar, leaven, sourdough on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over a year ago, someone offered me a voucher for a class on leaven and bread-making. I finally decided to use it, and now flour, dough, and old village ovens shouldn’t have any secrets for me. Except that (perhaps predictably), things never work out in my life as written matters say they should. That’s fine [...]
Girly Christmas to you!
Posted in Food, Friends & family, Shopping, tagged Christmas gifts, Family, Food, women on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I see the gift ideas that are advertised for girls and women before Christmas, I’m always amazed at how limited/limiting they are. Even as a child I was more into Lego than Barbie (I had one, but a friend’s brother ate her hand… it’s hard to rehabilitate a disfigured Barbie). Fortunately for me, there [...]
Wrap-N-Mat is setting a trend
Posted in Food, Shopping, Work, tagged eco-friendly, lunch, Wrap-N-Mat on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last spring, I became so enthusiastic about this fabric-and-plastic device that I persuaded some of my housemates to make a group order from the United States. One of them even chose the eco-print, which is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen – and I am attracted to ridiculous things. The concept [...]
Miniature cakes
Posted in Food, Home, Leaving, tagged England, miniature cakes, souvenirs on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Souvenirs are strange objects indeed. You try to find comfort in stereotypical representations of the place you’re visiting, in spite of their having very little to do with your own experience of the place, or that of the people who live there, for that matter. And yet, they do say something about local culture, or [...]
Chocolat Suchard
Posted in Food, Home, Trips, tagged duck mold, Suchard, Swiss chocolate on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having been in Switzerland for a month, it was time for me to find some interest again in local stories. You may know that Suchard used to be made in Neuchâtel, and for a town this size it’s an important historical element. Which is why the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire and the university organized an [...]
The meat chronicles – 4
Posted in Food, Home, Shopping, tagged iron defficiency, iron tablets, liver, meat on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been swallowing these pills daily for nine months now, and in spite of their pretty pink colour, they’re not very agreeable to take. While I can’t say that my iron defficiency comes directly from the overall small amount of meat I eat, it certainly plays a role in my current reflections on meat and [...]
The meat chronicles – 3
Posted in Food, Studies, tagged meat, mutton, sheep on March 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I had a presentation for my literature and food seminar and showed this chart to the class. The real thing had pictures of all the parts of the animal that can usually be found on a butcher’s stall. Students had mixed reactions: while some of them found it disgusting, others argued that they prefer their [...]
Signs of love
Posted in Food, Friends & family, Leaving on March 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When my boyfriend left after his week-long visit, I expected him to leave something behind. In the following days, I thought I would come accross, say, an old sock tucked under the desk, or a crumpled map indicating the way from Yverdon to Canterbury, or at least a hair on the pillow; but there was [...]
French style
Posted in Canterbury, Food, tagged café St Pierre, Canterbury, pastries on March 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ever since I arrived in Canterbury I’ve been looking for cafés where I can relax quietly away from campus while eating great food. With Café St Pierre I’m certainly getting closer to my aim. If you want to have French pastries with tea in the afternoon and a laid-back atmosphere to help you enjoy them [...]
